Tabulating, calculating, and similar machine



July 4, 1933.

G. TAUSCHE K TABULA'I'ING, CALCULATING, -AND SIMILAR MACHINE Filed May 28, 1936 1 I 1. I! hul l/VVENTOR: Eu! TA v 7ZL/5CHEI1/ BY Y (a. HCMC ATTORNEY5 v Patented Jill 4, 1933 GUSTAV 'I'AUSCHEK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE TABULATING MACHINE PATENT oFFicE COMPANY, OF ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION. OF NEW JERSEY TABULATING, CALCULATING, AND SIMILAR MACHINE Application filed. May 28, 1930, Serial No. 456,367, and in Austria July 25, 1927.

This application is a continuation in part of my earlier application Serial No. 295,264, filed July 25, 1928. v

My invention relates to tabulating, calculating and similar machines and has for one of its objects to provide mechanism for use in such machines for printing text and the like relating to the results obtained by interpreting perforated cards or by performing a calculation simultaneously with such interpretation or calculation.

The practical value of my improved mechanism will become evident when it is con-- sidered that in most cases the holes represented in perforated cards also represent codes for names, places, materials and the like the meaning of which must be ascertained after the particulars are tabulated. So, for instance, in a list of wages, made according to a usual method by means of perforated cards, the number of the respective workman appears, not however, his name which, for control purposes, must be ascer- V tainedwhen the wages are actually paid.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a mechanism whereby,-during the tabulating of, for example, wage cards, there is simultaneously automatically selected a type slug belonging to such card and located in a magazine, and printed o posite the tabulated particulars of the. card.

In the accompanying drawing is shown by way of example a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention.

At the side wall 1 of a tabulating machine a type slug magazine 2 is fixed in such a manner, that its upper portion cooperates with an extended platen 3 of the tabulating machine. The type slug magazine 2 comprises two compartments 4 and 5 containing the matrices 17 to be printed and those already printed from, respectively.

In accordance with the present invention, the type slugs, after the printing therefrom,

. are automatically transferred from the compartment 4 to the compartment 5, while at the same time othertype slugs are trans- 1 ferred from compartment 5 to compartment 4 in regular sequence. This trans er is ac-.

complished with the aid of a reciprocating mechanism comprising levers 6 and 15 pivotally mounted intermediate their ends at .7 and 8 respectively upon fixed parts of the machine, the pivot 7 being upon a lug 9 extending from one of the magazine walls. The levers 6 and 15 are connected by a link 10 to move in unison. its upper end a slide 16 which enters a slot in the side wall of the magazine, and is so positioned and reciprocated in such manner by mechanism presently to be described, that it engages the uppermost type slug in compartment 4 and pushes the same before it on top of uppermost slug in the type slug compartment5. The lever 6 is similarly provided at its lower end with a slide 16 which,"

simultaneously with the operation of the slide 16, enters the compartment 5 throu h a slot in the left wall of the magazinean pushes the lowermost matrix in compartment 5 to the compartment 4. As shown in the draw- The lever carries at ing the edges of the type slu s are beveled,

so that when a type slug is orced into the compartment 4:, it will lift the stack of type slugs '17 in the latter.

The levers 6 and 15 are oscillated to produce reciprocation of the slides 16 and 16 by means of disc 11 having a cam groove thereon which is engaged by the lower end.

of the lever 15. The disc 11 is mounted on a shaft 19 which is operatively connected to the drive shaft of the tabulating machine.

Also mounted on the shaft 19'is a cam disc 12 which is engaged by a lever 13 and is so formed that it operates to shift at eachrevo-' lut-ion a hammer 13 and thereafter releases it fora printing suitable spring. The disc 12, instead of being cam-shaped, may be provided with a pin projecting laterally therefrom which engages the lower end of lever 13' and swings the thereby moved away from the platen and; upon release of the lever by the pin, the hammer is caused to strike the type slug positioned in the ath of the hammer.

The operation of the hammer 13 and of i 7 '7 a movement by the action of a same at each revolution, the hammer being discs 12 and 11 to the shaft 19. The couplings are rendered efiective by the armatnres of magnets 22 and 23 when the circuits of the latter are closed by mechanism immediately to be described. I I

The circuit of the two coupling magnets 22 1 and 23 are opened and closed by the two reel.-

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. card is positioned on the latter, at other times are raised above such plate; The computing and t ping mechanism may be constructed as s own in United States Patent #1,61'?,088. The feeler 24 is so arranged that it engages the imperforated margin of the card, while the feeler 25 may engage a special row of perforations reserved therefor in the card. By this arrangement the feeler 24 will excite the magnet 22 after every card and thereby throw in the. coupling 21, wherebya shifting of the type slug is produced. Printing of an item from the type slug will, however, take place only when a perforation in the card is engaged by the feeler 25. In such event, the magnet 23 is energized and throws in the coupling 20 which operates the hammer 13. If no erforation is present in the column engaged b the feeler 25, then no printing takes place. hot illustrative purposes only the clutch devices are shown diagrammatically and in conventional form. The specific form may comprise those shown in either Hollerith Patent 677,214 or 685,608 in conjunction with the associated control devices disclosed in these patents whereby the momentary energization of the clutch control magnets will be continued by separate means in order to efi'cct a complete revolu tion of the operating cams and thereafter render them ineffective. In order to insure that the discs 11 and 12 make a complete revolution even when the magnets 22 and 23 are excited for only a veryshort time, there are provided noses 28 and 29 each of which, as soon as a magnet attracts its armature and thereby throws in the associated coupli holdsthe latter in such position for who e revolution.

As the adj ustable coupling 20 is controlled by the feeler 25, and. as such feeler must enga e perforations in the card being sensed be ore the circuit of-the. associated magnet 23 can be closed, the mechanism can be so controlled that a type slug is-printed from only after a certain number of cards have been sensed and which precede special cards having perforations in 'alinement with brush 25.

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aeraess While I have shown the type slugs arranged in vertical columns, the invention is not limited to such an arrangement for the columns may extend obliquely or horizontally. Where, therefore, in the claims ll employ the terms top and bottom, the same are to be understood as defining the opposite ends of the type slug compartments and not as specifying a vertical arrangement for such compartments,

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1. In a tahulating machine, the combina; tion ct sensing mechanism for interpreting a perforated card, a magazine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type sings in columnar relation, ro guiding a web of paper for receivi prints thereon, a hammer arranged to 'en gage one of said ty e slugs to cause the same to print on said we a reciprocable slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the top of the first compartment to the top oi the second, a second reciprocable slide arranged to' transfer type slugs from the bottom of the second compartment to the bottom of the first, means controlled by said card for operating said hammer, and means for reciprocating said slides.

2. In a tabulating machine, the combination of sensingmechanism for interpreting a perforated card, a ma azine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type slugs in columnar relation, means for guiding a web of paper for receiving imprints thereon, a hammer arranged to engage one of said type slugs to cause the same to print on said web, a reciprocablc slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the top of the first compartment to the top of the second, a second reciprocable slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the bottom of the second compartment to the bottom of the first, means for operating said hammer,-and means controlled by said card for reciprocating said slides.

3. In a tabulating machine the combination with a magazine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type slugs in columnar relation, of means for guiding a web of paper for receiving imprints thereon, a hammer arranged ,to enslugs to cause the same to print on said we means for transferring type slugs from the first compartment to the second and from the second to the first, means 'for operating said transferring means, a

driven shaft, and electromagnetic means controllable by a card introduced in the machine for coupling the transferring means to said shaft.

4. In a tabulating machine the combination with a magazine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type slugs arranged in columns, means for guiding a web of paper for receiving imsecond, a second reciprocable slide arranged prints thereon, a hammer arranged to engage one of said type slugs to cause the same to print on said web, a reci rocable slide arranged to transfer type s ugs from the top of the first compartment to the top of the to transfertype slugs from the bottom of the second compartment to the bottom of the first, a pair of linked levers for reciprocating said slides, a cam for oscillating one of said levers,-a driven shaft, a coupling between said cam and said shaft, and an electromagnet controllable by a card introduced in the machine for operating said coupling to connect said cam to said shaft.

5. In a tabulating machine the combination with a magazine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type slugs arranged in columns, means for guiding a. web of paper for receiving imprints thereon, a hammer arranged to engage one of said type slugs to cause the same to print on said web, a reciprocable slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the topv of the first compartment to the top of the second, a second recipro'cable slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the bottom of the second compartment to the bottom of the first, a lever for operating said hammer, a spring urging the hammer to engage a type slug, a

- cam arranged to oscillate said lever against the action of said spring, a driven shaft, a coupling between said coupling and said shaft, and an electromagnet controllable by a card introduced in the machine for operatlng said coupling to connect said cam to said shaft. V

- 6. In a tabulating machine the combination z with a magazine having two compartments arranged side by side for receiving type slugs arranged in columns, means for guiding a web of paper for receiving imprints there-. on, a hammer arranged to engage one of said type slugs to cause the same tojprint on said web, a reciprocable slide arranged to trans fer type slugs from the top of the first compartment to the top of the second, a second reciprocable slide arranged to transfer type slugs from the bottom of the second compartment to the bottom of the first, means for operating said hammer, and an electromagnet controllable bya card introduced in the machine for controlling the operation of said hammer operating means.

7. In a machine of the class described the combination with a platen, of a series of printing members in a compartment, means adapted to successively transfer said printing members to be correlated with the part of the sheet which is to be imprinted and which is carried by said platen for a printing operation, means for shifting a printing member to coact with said sheet, and means under'control of a;tab-- ulating card introducing in the machine to efiect the automatic operation of the shifting means.

8. In a machine of the class described. printing members successively transferable to a platen and adapted to print legends identifying data derived from tabulating cards, means operated at selected operations of the machine for shifting a printing member to effect a printing operation, and means controlled by specially desi ated tabulating cards for causing automatic operation of the last mentioned means. 7

9. In a machine of the class described, the combination with printing members transferred in a fixed sequence for identifying data derived from tabulating cards, of means for shifting a printing member to effect a printing operation, and means operable during selected machine operations determined by the analyzing of special designated tabulating cards for causing automaticoperation of the last named means.

10. In a tabulating machine, the combination with printing memberslfor identifying data derived from tabulatin'g cards, of means I controlled by the separation of a card from a special controlling element for causing a printing member to be shifted for a printing operation, and means whereby special designations of atabulating card causes a printing operation from the shifted printing member.

11. In a tabulating'machine the combination with identifyinglg means operable betwe n successively fed tab- .ulating cards for eflecting the presentation of a printing member tic-identify data derived from a following specially desi nated tabulating card, and means whereby t e special designation ofsaid card effects a printing operation from the last printing member presented.

12. In a tabulating machine, the combination with identifying printing members, of

means operable as an mcident to each tabulating operation for shifting a printing member for a printing operation, means for feeding individual tabulatin cards of a series, and means operable during selected tabulating machine operations represented by the simultaneous feeding of and control by a special tabulating card in the series for effectmg a printing impression from a shifted printing member.

13. In a tabulatlng machine, the combination with a series of identifying printing members, of means for presenting said mem-. bers in sequence for printing operations, means for feedin individual tabulating cards of aseries, an means under control of a tabulating card having a special designation for eflecting a printing operation from a print ng member presented in the same machine operation.

14. In a tabulating machine, the combination with an anaylzing device for analyzprinting members, of Y ing successively fed individual tehulating cards, of printing members shifted as an incident to the analyzing of each individual tabulating cerd, end means controlled by only one special designation of an individual card when analyzed by a part of said an alyzing device for causing it printing operation from a printing member the other part of said analyzing device controlling the printing of other data supplemental to the data printed by the printing member,

150 In a tabulating machine the combination with identifying printing members, of means for successively transferring printing members for printing operations means for analyzing individual perforated records, and means operable during an analyzing operation from an individual record for effecting e printing operation from s printing member to identity data derived from the indi trolled tabulating machine including a driving mechanism therefor, of e printing mechanism comprising conve ing means adapted to bring printing mem ers separately into printing position opposite the surface to beprinted, means effective for each tabulating machine operation for operating staid convey-' ing means to present individual printing members to the printing surface and a clutch mechanism adapted to selectively connect said operating means to the driving mechanism of the tabulating machine, said clutch mechanism being controlled by the record cards which control the tebnlitting machine.

19., The combination -with e calculating machine including a driving mechanism therefor, of a printing device comprising conveying means adapted to bring printing members separately into printing position opposite a surface to be printed, means efiective' for each tabnlating machine operation for operating the conveying means to present individual printing members to the printing surface, means for effecting printing from said printing members and a clutch adapted selectively to connect the printing means with the driving mechanism of the tabulating machine, said clutch being controlled by the record cards which control the tabulating machine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

. GUSTAV TAUSCHEK. 

